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Dossier #21
Contemporary Mini-Series or the Powers of the In-Between
The production of mini-series continues to grow, initiated by both television channels and streaming platforms, and increasingly supported by actresses and actors from the film industry. Miniseries such as …
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We Own This City, a coda to The Wire
With We Own This City (2022), David Simon returns to his favourite city, Baltimore. Based on Justin Fenton's barely fictionalised investigation, he offers a mini-series that is as dry in its narrative as it is implacable in its indictment of…
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Politics and Aesthetics of Film Montage
From Cinema to Installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the artist Harun Farocki, who distinguished…
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Film Montage and its Effects
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director of actors, agreed with this. This series of…
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Sound, Narrative, Performative and Spatial Sequences
These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a subject or a metadiscourse; one…
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Juxtapositions and Hyperlinks
Montage from Comics to Digital Cultures
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the position that montage in comics takes place in…